In article <TSHIN.92Dec15002851 at husc8.harvard.edu> tshin at husc8.harvard.edu (Tae Shin) writes:
>Hopefully someone out there can help me on this one. I'm using a DCL program
>called RIBBON that creates Richardson diagrams of protein structures. The
>output file is readable by FRODO and also can be converted to a format called
>PIPPIN for printing on pen plotters. Unfortunately I only have laser printers,
>and the PIPPIN file is clearly a file that controls pen movement. Does anyone
>know how to print this on a laser printer or convert it to another format
>(e.g. PostScript) which can be printed? Hopefully someone knows what I'm
>talking about and give me a hand. Any help/suggestions are greatly
>appreciated.
>
Most likely the plotter file is in HP-GL format (or possibly RD-GL) in which
case you can convert it to Postscript with the hpgl2ps program. In the
unlikely event that the plotter file is in DXY format the hpgl2ps package
can handle that too.
You can obtain hpgl2ps by anonymous ftp from many sites around the
world - here are just a few of the sites given by an archie search:
Host rigel.acs.oakland.edu
Location: /pub/msdos/postscript
FILE -rw-r--r-- 118499 Aug 26 1989 hpgl2ps.arc
Location: /pub/unix-c/postscript
FILE -rw-r--r-- 28946 Mar 5 1989 hpgl2ps1.tar-z
FILE -rw-r--r-- 51401 Mar 5 1989 hpgl2ps2.tar-z
Host cs.orst.edu
Location: /pub/src/text/filters
FILE -rw-rw-r-- 29130 Jan 14 1992 hpgl2ps.tar.Z
Host server.uga.edu
Location: /pub/sgi
FILE -r--r--r-- 45168 Jul 7 09:20 hpgl2ps.tar.Z
Hope this helps,
Dan Jacobson
danj at welchgate.welch.jhu.edu
